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Mourners gather at the funeral service held for Mr. Rowe who died last Thursday.
Bradford Witness
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Mourners gather at the funeral service held for Mr. Rowe who died last Thursday.
Bradford Witness
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Newspaper article from the Toronto Star dated January 25th, 1933. Details the death of George Atkinson, Principal at the time of Bradford Public School.
Luanne Campbell Edwards
Harman, Phoebe A. funeral card
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Funeral memorial card for Phoebe A. Harman, wife of Arthur Mousley.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Highway 11 accident kills Gilford woman
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"Gilford - a Gilford woman was killed and two persons were sent to hospital in a traffic accident Wednesday (Jan. 14).
Jean Taylor, 69, was fatally injured when the car she was driving southbound on Highway 11 struck another head on, Bradford OPP report.
The accident happened at about 12:30 p.m., near the 11th Concession. Mrs. Taylor's car was on the wrong side of the road, police report.
Raoul Tremblay, 76, of Churchill, was driving the northbound car. He and his daughter Violet were taken to York County Hospital.
Approximately $14,000 damage was done to the two car.
Bradford OPP are investigating the accident. No charges have been laid."
Bradford Weekly
Husband Slays Sleeping Wife, then Kills Self; Bradford baker Shoots Wife, Suicides
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"Bradford, Jan. 21 - Tragedy struck deep in a Bradford family shortly after midnight, Saturday, when Frank W. Stephenson, 32-year-old baker, shot and killed his sleeping wife and then sent a rifle bullet crashing into his own brain..."
The Globe & Mail
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"Return Open Verdict in Accident Which Caused Fireman's Death"
Relates to the Grand Trunk Railway derailment on July 15, 1908
Bradford Witness
King Township Man Drowned In Canal
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"George Murray Gillam, 29, of R.R. 3 King, was drowned in the canal, Holland Marsh, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Werner Ploder, son of Mr. A. Ploder, Holland Marsh, was returning home around 1:50 a.m. when tat the bridge, located at the far end of Ansnorveld, he saw the lights of a car in the water, and hurried to his home from where he called the King township police.
Bradford firemen were called, responding to the call at about 2 a.m. and they took the young man's body from the water, and a few hours later hauled the car out.
The car had gone through the guard rail of the bridge, where the water is about seven feet deep. Mr. Gillam was alone in his car."
Bradford Witness
Lifelong Friends, Three Lose Lives at Railroad Crossing
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"Three Schomberg men died at the railway level crossing immediately south of Beeton C.P.R. station, early Friday morning. The triple fatality left 10 young children fatherless." ...
Bradford Witness
Man Finds Work, is Drowned in Canal
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"Had Come from Toronto Thursday - Went Bathing After Day's Work
Mushaelo (Michael) Bohoniuk, 25-year-old Ukrainian, of 70 Runnymede Rd., Toronto, was drowned in the Holland Marsh irrigation cala, at a point where the canal skirts the rear of Mr. J.W. Wilson's farm, late Saturday afternoon.
The drowned man, it appears, had come up from Toronto on Thursday and had secured work with Anglo del Zotto and F. Bollsanelo, market gardeners. Having finished work on Saturday afternoon, he had decided to bathe in the canal. Undressing and donning a pair of trunks, he left his clothes in his employer's shack, started out apparently for the canal, and nothing further was seen of him alive. ..."
Bradford Witness
Marsh Grower Instantly Killed when Struck by Car on Saturday Night
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"John Paulov killed when struck by southbound motor about 8 O'clock Saturday Night" ...